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https://read.qxmd.com/read/37735654/incidence-of-immune-mediated-inflammatory-diseases-following-covid-19-a-matched-cohort-study-in-uk-primary-care
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Umer Syed, Anuradhaa Subramanian, David C Wraith, Janet M Lord, Kirsty McGee, Krishna Ghokale, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Shamil Haroon
BACKGROUND: Some patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) go on to experience post-COVID-19 condition or long COVID. Preliminary findings have given rise to the theory that long COVID may be due in part to a deranged immune response. In this study, we assess whether there is an association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and the incidence of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs). METHODS: Matched cohort study using primary care electronic health record data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum database...
September 21, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37726806/a-urinary-assay-for-mutation-and-methylation-biomarkers-in-the-diagnosis-and-recurrence-prediction-of-non-muscle-invasive-bladder-cancer-patients
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Hai Huang, Ao Liu, Yiming Liang, Yaqun Xin, Jiacheng Liu, Yining Hao, Da Huang, Lu Chen, Wei Li, Guangliang Jiang, Yuhua Huang, Yaoting Xu, Jie Zhang, Tonghui Ma, Danfeng Xu, Yi Gao
BACKGROUND: Currently, the clinical strategy for diagnosis of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) such as cystoscopy and cytology are invasive and/or with limited accuracy. OncoUrine, a urinary assay for mutation and methylation biomarkers, have showed a high accuracy in the detection of upper tract urinary carcinoma (UTUC) patients with hematuria. The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of OncoUrine in diagnosis of NMIBC patients. METHODS: In this multicenter prospective study, a total of 203 patients were enrolled, including 60 patients present with hematuria and 143 NMIBC patients under recurrence surveillance...
September 19, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37726769/small-volume-bone-marrow-aspirates-with-high-progenitor-cell-concentrations-maximize-cell-therapy-dose-manufacture-and-substantially-reduce-donor-hemoglobin-loss
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Jeremy Epah, Gabriele Spohn, Kathrin Preiß, Markus M Müller, Johanna Dörr, Rainer Bauer, Shabnam Daqiq-Mirdad, Joachim Schwäble, Stefanie N Bernas, Alexander H Schmidt, Erhard Seifried, Richard Schäfer
BACKGROUND: Bone marrow (BM) transplantation is a life-saving therapy for hematological diseases, and the BM harbors also highly useful (progenitor) cell types for novel cell therapies manufacture. Yet, the BM collection technique is not standardized. METHODS: Benchmarking our collection efficiency to BM collections worldwide (N = 1248), we noted a great variability of total nucleated cell (TNC) yields in BM products (HPC-M) with superior performance of our center, where we have implemented a small volume aspirate policy...
September 19, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37726759/evidencing-general-acceptability-of-open-label-placebo-use-for-tackling-overtreatment-in-primary-care-a-mixed-methods-study
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E M Krockow, T Emerson, E Youssef, S Scott, S Tromans
BACKGROUND: Overtreatment poses a challenge to healthcare systems due to harmful consequences of avoidable side-effects and costs. This study presents the first account for examining the feasibility of placebo use for reducing overtreatment in primary care, including whether public attitudes support the use of different placebo types in place of inappropriate prescriptions of antibiotics, antidepressants, or analgesics. METHODS: We used a multi-study, mixed-methods design, including patient and public (PPI) consultations, focus groups (Study 1) and two pre-registered online experiments (Studies 2 and 3)...
September 19, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37726738/larval-therapy-vs-conventional-silver-dressings-for-full-thickness-burns-a-randomized-controlled-trial
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Jasem Gaffari, Kamran Akbarzadeh, Mozhgan Baniardalani, Reza Hosseini, Safdar Masoumi, Zahra Sadat Amiri, Razieh Shabani Kordshouli, Javad Rafinejad, Mostafa Dahmardehei
BACKGROUND: This is the first clinical trial to investigate the effectiveness of maggot debridement therapy (MDT) for full-thickness burn injuries in comparison to conventional silver dressings. METHODS: Thirty-one cases with full-thickness (grade III based on ICD-10 classifications version 2019) burns were assigned into larval therapy (15 cases) and conventional treatment (16 cases) groups. Participants in the MDT group have received loose larvae on days 0, 2, 4, and 6, while controls received a conventional regimen comprised of sharp debridement, silver sulfadiazine, antibiotic therapy, and offloading every day...
September 19, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37726729/the-influence-of-explainable-vs-non-explainable-clinical-decision-support-systems-on-rapid-triage-decisions-a-mixed-methods-study
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Daniel Laxar, Magdalena Eitenberger, Mathias Maleczek, Alexandra Kaider, Fabian Peter Hammerle, Oliver Kimberger
BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, a variety of clinical decision support systems (CDSS) were developed to aid patient triage. However, research focusing on the interaction between decision support systems and human experts is lacking. METHODS: Thirty-two physicians were recruited to rate the survival probability of 59 critically ill patients by means of chart review. Subsequently, one of two artificial intelligence systems advised the physician of a computed survival probability...
September 19, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37726711/patient-reported-reactogenicity-and-safety-of-covid-19-vaccinations-vs-comparator-vaccinations-a-comparative-observational-cohort-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Felix Werner, Nikoletta Zeschick, Thomas Kühlein, Philipp Steininger, Klaus Überla, Isabelle Kaiser, Maria Sebastião, Susann Hueber, Lisette Warkentin
BACKGROUND: In the course of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, multiple vaccines were developed. Little was known about reactogenicity and safety in comparison to established vaccines, e.g. influenza, pneumococcus, or herpes zoster. Therefore, the present study aimed to compare self-reported side effects in persons vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 with the incidence of side effects in persons receiving one of the established vaccines. METHODS: A longitudinal observational study was conducted over a total of 124 days using web-based surveys...
September 19, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37710313/body-mass-index-and-inflammation-in-depression-and-treatment-resistant-depression-a-mendelian-randomisation-study
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Vasilios Karageorgiou, Francesco Casanova, Jessica O'Loughlin, Harry Green, Trevelyan J McKinley, Jack Bowden, Jessica Tyrrell
BACKGROUND: Major depressive disorder (MDD) has a significant impact on global burden of disease. Complications in clinical management can occur when response to pharmacological modalities is considered inadequate and symptoms persist (treatment-resistant depression (TRD)). We aim to investigate inflammation, proxied by C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, and body mass index (BMI) as putative causal risk factors for depression and subsequent treatment resistance, leveraging genetic information to avoid confounding via Mendelian randomisation (MR)...
September 14, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37710266/financial-hardship-associated-with-catastrophic-out-of-pocket-spending-tied-to-primary-care-services-in-low-and-lower-middle-income-countries-findings-from-a-modeling-study
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Sarah Bolongaita, Yeeun Lee, Kjell Arne Johansson, Øystein A Haaland, Mieraf Taddesse Tolla, Jongwook Lee, Stéphane Verguet
BACKGROUND: Financial risk protection (FRP) is a key component of universal health coverage (UHC): all individuals must be able to obtain the health services they need without experiencing financial hardship. In many low-income and lower-middle-income countries, however, the health system fails to provide sufficient protection against high out-of-pocket (OOP) spending on health services. In 2018, OOP health spending comprised approximately 40% of current health expenditures in low-income and lower-middle-income countries...
September 14, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37705021/impact-of-gallstone-disease-on-the-risk-of-stroke-and-coronary-artery-disease-evidence-from-prospective-observational-studies-and-genetic-analyses
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Li Zhang, Wenqiang Zhang, Lin He, Huijie Cui, Yutong Wang, Xueyao Wu, Xunying Zhao, Peijing Yan, Chao Yang, Changfeng Xiao, Mingshuang Tang, Lin Chen, Chenghan Xiao, Yanqiu Zou, Yunjie Liu, Yanfang Yang, Ling Zhang, Yuqin Yao, Jiayuan Li, Zhenmi Liu, Chunxia Yang, Xia Jiang, Ben Zhang
BACKGROUND: Despite epidemiological evidence associating gallstone disease (GSD) with cardiovascular disease (CVD), a dilemma remains on the role of cholecystectomy in modifying the risk of CVD. We aimed to characterize the phenotypic and genetic relationships between GSD and two CVD events - stroke and coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS: We first performed a meta-analysis of cohort studies to quantify an overall phenotypic association between GSD and CVD. We then investigated the genetic relationship leveraging the largest genome-wide genetic summary statistics...
September 13, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37704983/a-roadmap-for-sex-and-gender-disaggregated-health-research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sanne A E Peters, Mark Woodward
Sex and gender are fundamental aspects of health and wellbeing. Yet many research studies fail to consider sex or gender differences, and even when they do this is often limited to merely cataloguing such differences in the makeup of study populations. The evidence on sex and gender differences is thus incomplete in most areas of medicine. This article presents a roadmap for the systematic conduct of sex- and gender-disaggregated health research. We distinguish three phases: the exploration of sex and gender differences in disease risk, presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes; explaining any found differences by revealing the underlying mechanisms; and translation of the implications of such differences to policy and practice...
September 13, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37697382/establishing-the-relationships-between-adiposity-and-reproductive-factors-a-multivariable-mendelian-randomization-analysis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Claire Prince, Laura D Howe, Gemma C Sharp, Abigail Fraser, Rebecca C Richmond
BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated associations between adiposity and reproductive factors using causal methods, both of which have a number of consequences on women's health. Here we assess whether adiposity at different points in the lifecourse affects reproductive factors differently and independently, and the plausibility of the impact of reproductive factors on adiposity. METHODS: We used genetic data from UK Biobank (273,238 women) and other consortia (EGG, GIANT, ReproGen and SSGAC) for eight reproductive factors: age at menarche, age at menopause, age at first birth, age at last birth, number of births, being parous, age first had sexual intercourse and lifetime number of sexual partners, and two adiposity traits: childhood and adulthood body size...
September 12, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37697334/plant-based-diets-genetic-predisposition-and-risk-of-non-alcoholic-fatty-liver-disease
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yanling Lv, Shuang Rong, Yan Deng, Wei Bao, Yang Xia, Liangkai Chen
BACKGROUND: Diets rich in plant-based foods are associated with lower risks of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), while the prospective evidence is limited. We aimed to examine longitudinal associations of plant-based diets and genetic susceptibility with NAFLD risk. METHODS: This longitudinal cohort study included 159,222 participants (58.0 ± 8.0 years old, 55.7% female) free of NAFLD in the UK Biobank. We calculated the overall plant-based diet index (PDI), the healthful plant-based diet index (hPDI), and the unhealthful plant-based diet index (uPDI)...
September 12, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37697325/maternal-multimorbidity-and-preterm-birth-in-scotland-an-observational-record-linkage-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Utkarsh Agrawal, Mairead Black, Muhammad Usman, Siang Ing Lee, Kelly-Ann Eastwood, Ngawai Moss, Rachel Plachcinski, Catherine Nelson-Piercy, Sinead Brophy, Dermot O'Reilly, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Colin McCowan
BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity is common in women across the life course. Preterm birth is the single biggest cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity. We aim to estimate the prevalence of multimorbidity in pregnant women and to examine the association between maternal multimorbidity and PTB. METHODS: This is a retrospective cohort study using electronic health records from the Scottish Morbidity Records. All pregnancies among women aged 15 to 49 with a conception date between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2018 were included...
September 12, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37697323/importance-of-accurate-and-accessible-recording-of-healthcare-contacts-in-mental-health
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Ruth H Jack, Carol A C Coupland, Rebecca M Joseph, Chris Hollis, Richard Morriss, Roger David Knaggs, Andrea Cipriani, Samuele Cortese, Julia Hippisley-Cox
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
September 12, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37691123/substantially-more-children-receiving-antidepressants-see-a-specialist-than-reported-by-jack-et-al
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COMMENT
Vicky P Taxiarchi, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Matthias Pierce
We would like to draw attention to evidence of substantial bias in the article published in this journal by Jack et al. (BMC Med 18:1-12, 2020). They provide an analysis of antidepressant prescribing to children and young people (CYP; ages 5 to 17) in primary care in England and reported that only 24.7% of CYP prescribed SSRIs for the first time were seen by a child and adolescent psychiatrist-contrary to national guidelines. We believe that their analysis is based on incomplete data that misses a large proportion of specialist mental health contacts...
September 11, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37679740/integrated-epigenome-whole-genome-sequence-and-metabolome-analyses-identify-novel-multi-omics-pathways-in-type-2-diabetes-a-middle-eastern-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Noha A Yousri, Omar M E Albagha, Steven C Hunt
BACKGROUND: T2D is of high prevalence in the middle east and thus studying its mechanisms is of a significant importance. Using 1026 Qatar BioBank samples, epigenetics, whole genome sequencing and metabolomics were combined to further elucidate the biological mechanisms of T2D in a population with a high prevalence of T2D. METHODS: An epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) with T2D was performed using the Infinium 850K EPIC array, followed by whole genome-wide sequencing SNP-CpG association analysis (> 5...
September 8, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37679732/additional-considerations-before-using-a-ctdna-guided-approach-for-informing-adjuvant-chemotherapy-in-colorectal-cancer
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COMMENT
Timothée Olivier, Alyson Haslam, Vinay Prasad
BACKGROUND: The DYNAMIC trial investigated the use of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to guide adjuvant treatment decisions in stage II colon cancer. Despite the DYNAMIC trial's assertion that a ctDNA-guided approach could minimize the use of adjuvant treatment without compromising recurrence-free survival (RFS), we raised concerns regarding the trial's methodology and the practical implications of its findings in a Debate article. Here, we expand upon these concerns in a response to a correspondence by the authors of the DYNAMIC trial...
September 8, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37679695/integrated-unbiased-multiomics-defines-disease-independent-placental-clusters-in-common-obstetrical-syndromes
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Oren Barak, Tyler Lovelace, Samantha Piekos, Tianjiao Chu, Zhishen Cao, Elena Sadovsky, Jean-Francois Mouillet, Yingshi Ouyang, W Tony Parks, Leroy Hood, Nathan D Price, Panayiotis V Benos, Yoel Sadovsky
BACKGROUND: Placental dysfunction, a root cause of common syndromes affecting human pregnancy, such as preeclampsia (PE), fetal growth restriction (FGR), and spontaneous preterm delivery (sPTD), remains poorly defined. These common, yet clinically disparate obstetrical syndromes share similar placental histopathologic patterns, while individuals within each syndrome present distinct molecular changes, challenging our understanding and hindering our ability to prevent and treat these syndromes...
September 8, 2023: BMC Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37679672/association-of-caesarean-delivery-with-offspring-health-outcomes-in-full-cohort-versus-sibling-comparison-studies-a-comparative-meta-analysis-and-simulation-study
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Hong-Zhao Yu, Xiao-Wei Wang, Zhen-Yu Guo, Zhi Lin, Yu-Bo Zhou, Hong-Tian Li, Jian-Meng Liu
BACKGROUND: Full-cohort and sibling-comparison designs have yielded inconsistent results about the impacts of caesarean delivery on offspring health outcomes, with the effect estimates from the latter being more likely directed towards the null value. We hypothesized that the seemingly conservative results obtained from the sibling-comparison design might be attributed to inadequate adjustment for non-shared confounders between siblings, particularly maternal age at delivery. METHODS: A systematic review and meta-analysis was first conducted...
September 8, 2023: BMC Medicine
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